European Union governments want Brussels to keep secret how they plan to phase out using Russian oil and gas by the end of 2027, an internal EU document seen by Reuters showed.

Russia is hiring migrants from outside the European Union to commit crimes, spread fear and undermine trust in national governments. Source: annual report for 2024 of the Czech intelligence service (BIS),

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says Russia could pose a security threat to the European Union by the end of the decade and that defense industries in Europe and Ukraine must be ramped up.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Thursday urged Slovakia to drop its veto on the European Union's new sanctions package against Russia. At the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Rome, Merz emphasized that all countries should increase pressure on Moscow to compel Russian leadership to return to the negotiating table and end the war in Ukraine.

China’s foreign minister touted the three-year war as keeping the US focused on Ukraine, claiming that if the war were to end, Washington would start putting its full attention in the

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